"Cannot Display This Page" = dead browser hell. How to fix? 1

[fallingrock]

A while back all browsers stopped working. I could use Yahoo IM and Eudora email, but MSIE 6, Netscape 7, and Firefox 1.02 browsers simply displayed "Cannot Display this Page." I've done the the following without relief: (1) replaced Norton Internet Security Suite 2005 with Zone Alarm Security Suite 2005, (2) run complete antivirus with no threats detected, (3) run SpySweeper, Ad-Aware Plus SE 1.05, Spybot-Search and Destroy 3, WinPatrol, Microsoft Antispyware Beta, HODemon 2.0 all without any findings in safe mode, (4) read gobs of similar wows without enlightenment from Google, (5) Did a System Restore three times to weeks before the problem began (with the result "No changes detected>", all without reversing the problem to gain use of my internet browser access. I am out of solutions. I can't accesss Windows Updates to try that because the brwosers don't work. Catch 22. You pay you die, you loose, welcome to tech heaven! Go buy another one or reformat your life! Any suggestions before I have to pay for help? or toss my 6 month old $3000 toy out the window?

 

[gx3]

Ok, it's Friday and I'm a little slow but did you tell me how you managed all that you mentioned without a browser?

 

[fallingrock]

I wrote this using one of my other computers that works.

 

[bcastner]

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